Pillar two
Purpose comes
before prosperity.
What we believe eventually determines what we build. Conviction is not decoration on a business; it is the architecture underneath it.
Faith is not a coat of paint on a business. It is the structure holding the thing up, whether or not anyone can see it from the street. What you actually believe about God, people and time will show up in your balance sheet eventually.
Scripture is not shy about money. It is shy about money as a master. Solomon was literate in two dimensions at once — he engaged heaven and then built in the earth — and that double literacy is the thing most of us are missing.
These essays take faith seriously and structurally, not decoratively.
Scripture describes several patterns for handling money. Find out which one you are operating in.
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